Christopher Chaney, the man who hacked the e-mail account of Scarlett Johansson and reportedly over 50 other celebrities, on the left; Scarlett Johansson on the right., Left, by Rick Wilson/Getty Images; right, by Neil Mockford/FilmMagic.

Five months after being arrested, Christopher Chaney—the man who leaked a nude photo of Scarlett Johansson and claims to have had access to more than 50 other celebrities—is attempting to explain his hacking motivations to the public. Per a recent profile by GQ: “It’s the whole Star Trek thing. Going where no man has gone before.” Chaney says that he was first inspired to attempt celebrity e-mail infiltration after seeing leaked half-naked images of Miley Cyrus. Although he wasn’t a hacker, Chaney, who was 33 at the time, figured out how to break into e-mail accounts simply by isolating his target’s addresses (by searching different iterations of each person’s name on Gmail) and then doing enough Internet research on said celebrity so that he could correctly retrieve a lost password.

Perhaps what is more interesting than Chaney’s step-by-step tutorial on how to invade the privacy of a well-known actress is that the Florida native also suggests that his hacking was done, in part, for educational purposes:

After hacking the account of one producer, Chaney saw the entire filmmaking process, from start to finish. The producer was working on In Time, a film starring Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, and Amanda Seyfried. Chaney breezed through copies of the script, set in a dystopian future where people die at age 26 unless they can afford to buy another day. He marveled over production photos of arms imprinted with numbers that count down the actors’ hours. He read in astonishment as one producer discussed visiting strip clubs to find a body double for an actress, perhaps Seyfried. Another had to negotiate a deal with Seyfried’s agent over how much flesh she’d show. “It seemed a fairly convoluted process just to show a butt crack,” Chaney says.

That moderately creepy claim is also paired with even creepier claims about what he learned about certain actors’ real-life personalities, like that of Mila Kunis, whose e-mail he also hacked: “She was almost the kind of person you see portrayed [in film],” he explains. “Not ditzy, but she was as funny in person as she is in [movies].”

Chaney also alleges that he has photos of a semi-nude Christina Aguilera, naked pictures of a “huge” actress in her “mid-to-late forties,” and e-mail evidence that certain Hollywood stars are gay.

After being arrested, Chaney pled guilty to unauthorized access to a computer, wiretapping, and seven other counts. He faces 60 years in jail and $2.25 million in fines.